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University Daily Kansan, October 31, 1980
News Briefs From United Press International
N.I. senator indicted in ABSCAM
WASHINGTON - Sen. Harrison Williams, D-N.J., was indicted for conspiracy and bribery yesterday in a $100 million ABSCAM scheme. He is the most influential figure charged so far in the government's two-year investigation of political corruption.
A federal grand jury charged Williams with accepting stock in a Virginia titanium mine in return for a promise to steer military contracts to the company. The indictment said an FBI agent posing as an Arab sheikh agreed to lend $100 million to the mine公司 to sweeten the deal.
Washington, a year-old liberal Democrat, is the first U.S. senator to be charged with corruption since 1989, when Daniel Brewster of Maryland, was indicted for taking bribes. Brewster was convicted of receiving illegal gratuities three years later.
"I am innocent. I did nothing wrong," he said, reading from a statement. A suggestion was made which was improper. It was wrong. The statement
In Washington, Williams said he was innocent, in an appearance in front of television cameras. He did not take questions from reporters.
Canada to reduce oil, gas production
EDMONTON, Alberta- The premier of Canada's main oil producing province directly challenged Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau yesterday, announcing he will reduce oil production to force higher oil and gas income for the province.
The action, which Alberta Premier Peter Lougheed admitted could force Trudeau to take over the province's natural resources, could threaten
Lougheed said in a television address that his government would reduce oil production by 180,000 barrels a day, in stages three months apart, until full production.
The western premier has been a frequent advocate of giving the provinces more power at the expense of the federal government. He said Canada's economy has not been affected by the war.
However, Louheed begged, the cutbacks would be stopped if there were serious shortages or if his government could negotiate new oil prices with the company.
Canadian oil prices do not have a direct impact on the federal government energy policy announced Tuesday it would increase conventional crude oil prices about $3.70 a barrel in each of the next three years, and would raise prices more rapidly after that.
However, only about $1.70 a barrel of that will go to the well-head price from which Alberta obtains its royalties. The remainder will be used to subsidize purchases of foreign oil. Canada imports about 10 percent of its needs.
Uranium leak larger than suspected
ERWIN, Tenn.—An accidental release of highly enriched uranium at a top-secrent Tennessee nuclear fuel plant in 1979 may have been 10 times greater than first reports indicated, and probably contaminated about 1,000 people, federal officials said yesterday.
The leak was among the largest such releases ever reported to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, but NRC officials said it did not pose serious health risks.
Residents near the plant could have been exposed to as much as five times the amount of radiation they would have received in a year from nature.
NRC spokesman Ken Clark said the accidental release was caused when a pipe clogged and the dust-likeanium swirled on the plant's vent stack.
Albert Gibson, of the NRC, said residents near the plant could have inhaled the urine and blood through a person's body and even contaminate the bones.
The NRC calculated that an adult living near the facility on Aug. 7, 1979 may have received a dose of uranium ranging from 10 to 250 millirams and a child may have gotten a dose ranging from 20 to 500 millirams. A child, being smaller receive a larger, more concentrated dose.
Jamaican voters oust Socialist Partv
A person normally receives about 100 millirems of uranium a year from nature.
KINGSTON, Jamaica—Jamaica's voters swept Prime Minister Michael Manley's socialist government out of office yesterday and handed victory to the Labour Party in a landslide.
With more than 50 percent of the ballots counted, Edward Seaga's conservative Labor Party was leading in 46 seats of the 60-member Parliament. The government-run Jamaica Broadcasting Company said its computer showed the Labor Party would win between 38 and 40 seats in the new Parliament, a comfortable majority that would make Seaga the Caribbean island nation's new prime minister.
Bruce Golding, the Labor Party's secretary-general, said the outcome of the election was a rejection of the socialist side that Manley sought to lead Jamaica into and an affirmation of Seaga's plans for a capitalist economy.
Manley, who is Cuban President Fidel Castro's closest ally in the Caribbean area, won a narrow victory to retain his seat in Parliament. He received 6,734 votes to his opponent's 5,392, less than one-fifth of his margin of victory in 1976. Seaga won his district overwhelmingly.
Manley's People's National Party was leading in only 10 parliamentary races, and the two too close to call. In the outgoing Parliament, Manley's party led by Tom Pfeiffer.
Seaga, who survived an assassination attempt Wednesday, was caught in the midst of a gunbattle soon after the polls opened. He was unarmed, and no one could stop him.
Black vets prepare to patrol Atlanta
ATLANTA—Leaders of a black veterans group, angered by the slayings or disappearances of 14 black children in Atlanta during the past 15 months, said yesterday that their members would arm themselves against anyone who threatened that.
"if it takes our blood to run in the streets, let it be," said James W. Tibbs, national adjunct of the United States Veterans, a black veterans group.
At a sparsely attended news conference, Tibbs said that as many as 800 black veterans could be called to arms in Atlanta if blacks were put in a position to defend themselves. He refused to say how many blacks the group represented.
Orvell Anderson, commander of a local post of the veterans group and a former Black Panther, said members of his post would be watchdogs on the streets of Atlanta.
Meanwhile, Georgia Gov. George Busbee, expressing concern about deteriorating race relations and calling for cool heads, asked the Georgia Bureau of Investigation to check reports that the Ku Klux Klan was conducting terrorist training schools in the state.
"We're not going to let all these crimes be perpetrated against our children." he said.
Atlanta Public Safety Commissioner Lee Brown again asked parents yesterday to keep their children home Halloween night and not allow them to
Officials make record marijuana bust
NEW IBERIA, La.—Authorities broke up a sophisticated marjuana smuggling operation in southern Louisiana with the seizure of $112 million worth of high-grade marijuana, the largest seizure ever recorded in the United States.
U. S. Customs Service authorities said that 78-80 tons of marjuana were found on a barge in the intracastal waterway late Wednesday. The seizure was announced yesterday morning after four suspects appeared before a federal magistrate.
Customs spokesman Dick Wright estimated that the street value of the captured marjuanata at $80 million, possibly more, depending on the quality. State Police spokesman Ronald Jones, who had first announced the seizure, said the drugs were worth $112 million.
Hostage debate delayed
A group of hard-line members boycotted the Iranian Parliament's session on the 52 American hostages yesterday, causing debate to be postponed until Sunday, amid fears the extremists might boycott that session also.
By United Press International
Despite reports from some Iranian leaders that a majority of parliamentarians favored release of the hostages before the U.S. elections Tuesday, there appeared little hope for their release that soon.
The boycott by the deputies prevented the Parliament from reaching quorum. The absent members apparently refuse to consider the hostages until the conflict with Iraq is resolved.
IN WASHINGTON, State Department spokesman John Trattner said, "We are simply waiting to see what Parliament may do. They are going to get around to addressing it (the hostage issue) in their own time. Until then, I can't speculate on why they are doing what they are doing."
Iran's Central News Bureau said the absences in Parliament created uprora
Ayatollah Sheik Sadegh Khalkhali, an Islamic judge who has sentenced to death hundreds of the late shah's restrum and shouted: the Parliament restrum and shouted:
"If these gentlemen are opposed to any matter, they could come to the Majla (Parliament) and say their opinion than deprive the Majla of a quorum."
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SVA FILMS
Friday, Oct. 31
Halloween
See John Carpenter's film on the night it was intended for. A psychotic killer escapes and stalks a young baby sister (Jamie Lee Curtis) in this amazingly hilarious story. Donal Plessance. Plus: "Mad as a Man Harle" (9/27). Color: 3/4in., 7:30; 9:00.
(1978)
John Carpenter's most recent film is every bit as scary at Halloween, but more finely textured. On the 100th anniversary of World War II, a group of boys of a century-old shipwreck come alive to wreak their terrible vengeance. And Barbie Adnee Barnes, Hal Holbrook, and Janet Leigh, Plus: "The Mystery of Jack and Bessie" (9:31 PM) Gold 12:00 MIDNight
Halloween
3:30, 7:00, 8:30
The Fog
12:00 Midnight.
Monday, Nov. 3 Twentieth Century
(1980)
His career gone down the drain, Broadway producer Oscar Jaffe (John Barrymore) follows his ex-professor Lily Garland (Carole Lombard) onto the set of "The Lord of the Rings" for his dream project—the Oberamargau Passion Play. This crazy comedy, by Ben Heydon and Charles MacArthur, features great comedic performances by John Hardy and Walter Connoy, directed by Howard Hawks (93 min.) & W.B. 7:30.
Saturday, Nov. 1
Unless otherwise noted; all film will be shown at Woodford Auditorium in the Kansas Union. Weekday films are $1.10; Friday, Saturday, Popular and Sunday films are $1.50. Midnight films are $2.00. Available at the SAU office, Kansas Union. Level information 8437. No smoking refreshments allowed.
(1934)
Paid for by Eldredge for Senate Committee, Kurt Watson, Treasurer
Paid Pol. Adv.
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SEAFOOD
Market 841-6610
FREE CRAB
925 Iowa at Hiltnerst
Across from bowling lanes
Open 6 days a week
ALASKAN Buy 3 lbs. At The SNOWCRAB Regular Price (3.65/lb CLUSTERS Get 2 lbs. FREE
5 lbs. OF CRAB FOR JUST $10.95 plus tax
Last big snowcrab shipment for 1980. The season is over.
Tiger Prawns Are Back 6-8/lb. $9.50/lb.
Try New Canadian Prawns 30-40/lb. Introductory Price $2.25/lb.
Two John Carpenter Classics Friday and Saturday Oct. 31-Nov. 1
"Halloween is a sleeper that's here to stay. It can stand proud alongside 'Night of the Living Dead' and Hitchcock's 'Psycho.' "Halloween is a movie of almost unreliable chills ... the trickiest thriller of the year." — Tom Allen, N.V. Village Volunteer
R RESTRICTED
3:30, 7:00, 9:30 $1.50
Midnight $2.00
Come in costume to The Fog and get a free pass
Woodruff Auditorium. No Refreshments Allowed.